A general manager’s first draft pick with a team means something extra. He will be tied to that player forever, and the pick says something about the GM’s thought process and risk tolerance.
Dave Gettleman and Saquon Barkley always will be connected. And now so will Joe Schoen and Kayvon Thibodeaux, the charismatic Oregon pass rusher who landed in New Jersey on Saturday morning with a hoarse voice and a $36 million dollar smile.
“Touching down it was like, it’s meant to be,” Thibodeaux, 21, said early Saturday morning on the auditorium stage inside the Giants’ East Rutherford, N.J., facility.
